Notes in the Particle Listings
in the 1997 Review of Particle Physics

Cut-off date for this update was October 15, 1997.

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Notes in the Gauge and Higgs Boson Listings

The Z Boson (12 pages, 94kb)
The Higgs Boson (6 pages, 122kb)
The W' Searches (6 pages, 65kb)
The Z' Searches (8 pages, 95kb)
Leptoquark Quantum Numbers (3 pages, 34kb)
Axions and other Very Light Bosons (6 pages, 59kb)

Notes in the Lepton Listings

Muon Decay Parameters (7 pages, 84kb)
tau Branching Fractions (7 pages, 64kb)
tau-Decay Parameters (1 page, 28kb)
Neutrinos (15 pages, 115kb)
The Electron Neutrino Mass (2 pages, 26kb)
No. of Light Neutrino Types from Collider Expts. (2 pages, 33kb)
Massive Neutral Leptons & Effects of Nonzero Neutrino Masses (5 pages, 114kb)
Sum of Neutrino Masses (1 page, 17kb)
Limits from Neutrinoless Double-beta Decay (2 pages, 71kb)
Solar neutrinos (8 pages, 136kb)

Notes in the Quark Listings

Quark Masses (11 pages, 97kb)
The Top Quark (11 pages, 84kb)
Free Quark Searches (1 page, 21kb)

Notes in the Meson Listings

(See below for Notes in the Mesons Resonances Listings.)

Pseudoscalar-Meson Decay Constants (4 pages, 53kb)
pi^+- -> lepton^+- nu gamma and K^+- -> lepton^+- nu gamma Form Factors (3 pages, 44kb)
The Charged Kaon Mass (5 pages, 98kb)
Rare Kaon Decays (7 pages, 79kb)
Dalitz Plot Parameters for K --> 3pi Decays (1 page, 30kb)
K^+- (lepton3) and K⁰(lepton3) Form Factors (4 pages, 50kb)
CP Violation in K_S --> 3pi (1 page, 25kb)
CP Violation in K⁰_L Decay (7 pages, 383kb)
Delta S = Delta Q in K⁰ Decays (1 page, 18kb)
D Mesons (4 pages, 49kb)
Production and Decay of b-flavored Hadrons (13 pages, 130kb)
CP Violation in B Decay -- Standard Model Predictions (13 pages, 138kb)
B⁰-Bbar⁰ Mixing (5 pages, 86kb)

Notes in the Meson Resonance Listings*

*Note: these have not changed. We present the 1996 versions.

The rho (770) (1 page, 19kb)
The a₁ (1260) (2 pages, 27kb)
Scalar mesons (5 pages, 47kb)
The f₁ (1420) (2 pages, 28kb)
The eta(1440) (2 pages, 26kb)
The rho (1450) and the rho (1700) (2 pages, 30kb)
The f_J (1710) (1 page, 27kb)
The X(1900--3600) Region (1 page, 15kb)
K^* (892) Masses and Mass Differences (1 page, 17kb)
The K₂ (1770) and the K₂(1820) (1 page, 19kb)
Width Determinations of the Upsilon States (2 pages, 28kb)
Non-q qbar Mesons (6 pages, 58kb)

Notes in the Baryon Listings*

*Note: Except for the Review on N and Delta Resonances, these have not changed. We present the 1996 versions.

Baryon Decay Parameters (4 pages, 52kb)
N and Delta Resonances (15 pages, 99kb)
Baryon Magnetic Moments (2 pages, 66kb)
Lambda and Sigma Resonances (5 pages, 107kb)
The Lambda(1405) (5 pages, 47kb)
The Sigma(1670) Region (1 page, 24kb)
Xi Resonances (1 page, 29kb)
Charmed Baryons (2 pages, 138kb)

Notes in the Search Listings

Magnetic Monopole Searches (2 pages, 28kb)
Supersymmetry, Part I (Theory) (25 pages, 165kb)
Supersymmetry, Part II (Experiment) (28 pages, 1733kb)
Searches for Quark and Lepton Compositeness (5 pages, 59kb)
WIMP'S and Other Stable Particle Searches (1 page, 21kb)

See the Boson Particle Listings for searches for Higgs bosons, other heavy bosons, and axions and other very light bosons, the Lepton Particle Listings for searches for heavy leptons and for neutrino mixing, and the Meson Particle Listings for searches for top and fourth-generation hadrons.

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